Hammer Is the Prayer

A luminous collection spanning three decades from one of America's most acclaimed poets Christian Wiman, hailed for his "daring and urgent" poetry (The New York Times Book Review), has forged a singular style that fuses vivid musicality, clear-eyed realism, wry humor, and visionary intensity. In his critically acclaimed memoir, My Bright Abyss, Wiman ponders poetry's role in a world afire. Hammer Is the Prayer : Selected Poems stands as a powerful response. From the taut forms of his early work